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DonWillis
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What publications and/or websites do you go to for World Coin news, information and purchases?
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Edited to add; goldbercoins.com, Louis Hudson, Mike Dunigan, Paul Karon, Ebay for purchases. Krause catalogs Louis Hudson and Mike Dunigan for information.
Gary
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Don
Old world coin auction catalogs are invaluable for reference information.
Heritage, Bowers and Merena, NEN, eBay and CU's Message Board for buying and selling.
Forums: This one, cointalk.
Interesting question, for me it's quite a list but here are a few:
For purchases- Germancoins.com, selected ebay sellers, several MA-Shops dealers, Northeast Numismatics, EuroCollections, Harlan J. Berk, and a few of the major auctions...
For research- I mostly use the WWW but books, mainly Amazon and occasionally Barnes and Noble or a local dealer.
And of course- this forum (and a few others, but I don't participate)!
Jim
This site, DNW, Stacks, Jerry Bobbe/Larry Gale, Bill McKivor, Gary Groll, Allan Davisson, Baldwins
I love finding, reading and collecting Auction Catalogs, even those that are stocked full of US coins. Lots of interesting opportunities to learn something new in auction catalogs. Love Stacks for that reason, they handle a lot of "interesting" stuff not seen at other auction houses.
Collecting:
Conder tokens
19th & 20th Century coins from Great Britain and the Realm
Books: Spink, Coin Magazine Annual, Collector Coins Great Britain, Coincraft, Michael Gouby's books, Freeman, English Silver Coinage, Davies.
Magazines: Coin
Websites: this website, predecimal.com, Tony Clayton's website, Colin G's "aboutfarthings" website (aboutfarthings.co.uk), colincooke.com
Thanks for posing the question. It is a good one to view the various responses.
World coin news and pricing history is challenging and not as available as the US material but it is getting better.
For general information, I browse here on a regular basis of course, read the Nummimatist, and occasionally follow the website Mexican coin magic. The website has expired, which was a bummer. I was hoping to contribute an article to it.
For pricing history, I review past auctions from the big auction sites and refer to coinarchives for assistance.
For purchases, I try to stay with reputable dealers and websites along with the occasional ebay purchase.
Keep up the good work on increasing the visability of world coins and let us know how to help the process.
For information and purchases...
Heritage Auctions and Auction Archives,
One very small section of eBay,
VCoins,
PCGS Set Registry,
and several smallish sites dealing with Philippines coinage under US Administration (including sites created by fellow forum members such as jetBlack74Oil's web site.
Thank you for asking.
Heritage and Goldberg's for auctions
DNW for auctions too
Experience the World through Numismatics...it's more than you can imagine.
This forum is great http://forums.collectors.com it has brought new dimension to my thoughts on coin collecting, communication to other collectors and those that do research and the growing importance of the internet.
I enjoy reading all individuals comments, we are fortunate to live in a democracy that within limitations allows us to pass on information and as we see it.
Honourable members have done proud in listing books and sites, this FORUM for me is developing allow contributions to be brought together and discussed openly.
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Certainly would be a daunting task!
Collecting:
Conder tokens
19th & 20th Century coins from Great Britain and the Realm
World Collection
British Collection
German States Collection
Any of the ones listed in previous posts would be excellent sources.
To my mind nothing beats the give and take of an educated forum community such as this one.
eBay and other auction sites provide up to the minute exemplars of market mood.
Still and all though, when you have experienced forum members who are willing to share their body of knowledge,
you have a powerful educational tool that is enjoyable as well.
is that you end up being governed by inferiors. – Plato
Rick
1836 Capped Liberty
dime. My oldest US
detecting find so far.
I dig almost every
signal I get for the most
part. Go figure...
Plus the leading British and North American Auction houses.
Oh and here
Web: www.tonyharmer.org
Perhaps PCGS are planning a World coin Coinfacts and are trying to find out if it will be a viable endeavour?
<< <i>Why is this thread marked as an "Alert Thread"?
Perhaps PCGS are planning a World coin Coinfacts and are trying to find out if it will be a viable endeavour? >>
I would think world coins is absolutely PCGS's growth driver.
I give away money. I collect money.
I don’t love money . I do love the Lord God.
perhaps giving us all insight into the future direction PCGS might take.
is that you end up being governed by inferiors. – Plato
For news about old coins (what is going on in the world of non-current issues) it would be right here, CoinTalk, and the CoinsAreFun forum.
For information, it's World Coin Gallery.
For purchases, it's whereever I can find stuff I want that I can afford. I don't add to my collection often. Most comes from buy by the pound occasions, but I have also purchased at a coin show, from the BST here, and off websites. Eventually I plan to do some purchasing from ads in magazines but right now I can't afford to.
The Sear books on Greek, Roman and Greek Imperial coinage.
Wildwinds
David Hendin's books on ancient Jewish coinage.
For British coins I use the Spink and Coincraft books and sometimes Krause.
For other world coins I use Krause and various other catalogs.
In addition I will sometimes ask questions here and on a forum maintained by another grading service. I also use Google quite a bit to search for specific information.
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What is an alert thread?
Collecting coins for design, artistic merit and history really has no geographic boundaries. It seems that if there are 300 Million in the US and over 5 billion in other regions of the world, that statistic speaks volumes for those that were not interested in my first sentence.
End of discussion in terms of markets, market share, growth and all the things that interest those who failed to take an interest in the first sentence.
I think that sums it up
Experience the World through Numismatics...it's more than you can imagine.
Marc
There is another source of information on World coins - CoinFacts wiki World Coins. Not only can you research here but you are free to add you own comments.
Lastly, I don't know what an 'alert thread' is. It's just a way I have to peg a message to the top of the board for a given period.
Thanks again.
The World & Ancient Coins Forum is user friendly, informative and gives collectors the opportunity to communicate- it does not get better than this. PCGS (Collectors Universe) should be very proud of this forum as it truly is an amazing accomplishment.
Experience the World through Numismatics...it's more than you can imagine.
I for one am hoping PCGS's big announcement will impact World Coins as well in a positive way.
Jim